NLnet; NGI Mobifree Background information

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Mobifree is a pilot within the <a href="https://ngi.eu">Next Generation Internet</a> initiative. The partners within the consortium are foundations, companies, academic institutions and individuals involved in creating a number of libre building blocks for a more open mobile ecosystem:</p> <ul class="pointer"> <li>E Foundation</li> <li>Waag Society</li> <li>Murena</li> <li>QWANT</li> <li>Rapid.Space International SAS</li> <li>Merlinux GmbH</li> <li>Lars Marvin Wißfeld</li> <li>Daniel Gultsch</li> <li>Stichting Art — Technology</li> <li>NLnet Foundation</li> <li>University of Amsterdam</li> <li>Evidence Aid</li> <li>Uptodown Technolgies SL</li> <li>Code for Romania</li> <li>Biosense Institute</li> </ul> <p>Creating these building blocks is the <em>primary objective</em>. NLnet foundation is involved in order to reach a <em>secondary objective</em> of the programme, which is to provide an agile, effective and low-threshold funding mechanism to enable individual researchers and developers, as well as small (potentially distributed) teams of them, to research and develop important new ideas that contribute to the establishment of the <a href="../#NGI">Next Generation Internet</a> — and in particular the domain of libre mobile technologies. It shares this goal with programmes like <a href="/NGI0">NGI Zero</a> and of course with other pilots like <a href="/taler">TALER</a> and <a href="/fediversity">Fediversity</a>.</p>In other words: part of the budget of Mobifree (15% to be precise) is reserved for open calls to fund free and open source efforts that are aligned with the topics and approach of Mobifree.<p>The money for the pilot is kindly provided by the European Commission DG CNECT.</p> <p><img src="/image/logos/NGI_Pilots_tag.svg" alt="NGI Pilots logo" /></p> <p>Please visit the main <a href="https://mobifree.org">Mobifree</a> website for more information</p> <p><a href="https://mobifree.org"><img src="/image/mobifreewebsite.png" alt="Screenshot of Mobifree website main page" /></a></p> <h2>Review Committee</h2> <p>NLnet has installed a Review Committee for this fund. This Review Committe consists of independent experts from the internet and open source field, academia and the public sector. The committee receives no remuneration for its work, and its members have no other economic interests with any projects funded by the programme.</p> <p>The Review Commitee receives the outcome of the selection process, and independently validates that all the projects that are selected are indeed eligible for funding, budgets are frugal, and that there are no other concerns.</p> </div> <div class="col4 reorder"> <div class="part"> <h3>Search</h3> <form onsubmit="/js/searchbutton.js" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search/static.html" class="sitesearch"><input id="searsia-input" type="text" name="q" class="form-control" value="" autocomplete="off" /><label for="searsia-input"><span class="hide">Search</span></label><input type="submit" id="searsiasubmit" name="submit" value="Search" /><label for="searsiasubmit"><span class="hide">Submit search</span></label></form> </div> <div> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/mobifree/guideforapplicants/index.html">Guide for Applicants</a></li> <li><a href="/mobifree/background/index.html#organisation">Who is behind this?</a></li> <li><a href="/mobifree/eligibility/index.html">Eligibility</a></li> <li><a href="/mobifree/faq/index.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/mobifree/index.html">Call text</a></li> <li><a href="/thema/NGIMobifreeFund.html">Ongoing projects</a></li> <li><a href="https://mobifree.org">Mobifree website</a></li> </ul> <p><a href="/mobifree" class="blank"><img src="/image/logos/NGI_Mobifree_tag.svg" alt="NGI Mobifree logo" class="signaturelogo" /></a></p> <p class="box marge"> <h5>Currently open for proposals:</h5> </p> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/commonsfund/">NGI0 Commons Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/taler/">NGI TALER</a></li> <li><a href="/mobifree/">NGI Mobifree</a></li> <li><a href="/fediversity/">NGI Fediversity</a></li> </ul> <div><a href="/foundation/jobs/regionalrepresentative.html" class="part part_link part_green"><img src="/image/git-merge-2.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="git merge icon" /> <h5 class="color_white">Job opening</h5> <font color="white">NGI Zero is looking for a Regional Representative.</font> </a></div> <div><a href="https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero" class="part part_link part_blue"><img src="/image/ic_antenna_white.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="podcast logo, antenna with radio waves" /> <h5 class="color_white">Listen to our podcast</h5> <font color="white">Converstations with people building the Next Generation Internet</font> </a></div>  </div> <div class="part"> <h3>Events</h3> <p class="h-event"><a href="/events/20250201/FOSDEM/index.html"><span class="dt-start dt-end">2025-02-01</span> - <span class="p-name">Let's meet at FOSDEM 2025</span></a></p> <p class="h-event"><a href="/events/20241128/index.html"><span class="dt-start dt-end">2024-11-28</span> - <span class="p-name">Webinar: Ask Us For Help: Practical Support for NGI Beneficiaries</span></a></p> <p class="h-event"><a href="/events/20240502/index.html"><span class="dt-start dt-end">2024-05-02</span> - <span class="p-name">Tech talk with bunnie on IRIS: an open hardware project to verify chips</span></a></p> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/webinars">Upcoming webinars & recordings</a></li> <li><a href="/events">Event archive</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="part"> <h3>News</h3> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241121-CfP-Fosdem.html">Call for Participation: Devroom on FOSS Funding at FOSDEM</a> 2024-11-21</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241111-NGI-Taler-grants.html">NGI TALER Grants for Tryton and Interledger Interoperability </a> 2024-11-11</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241111-NGI-Mobifree-grants.html">NGI Mobifree Grants Awarded for Fair Mobile Software</a> 2024-11-11</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241015-BlueHatsPrize4.html">Monitoring Plugins wins BlueHats Prize for maintainers</a> 2024-10-15</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241014-announcing-CommonsFund-call.html">NGI0 Commons Fund Supports 32 Projects Building the Public Internet</a> 2024-10-14</p> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/news">More news</a></li> </ul> </div> <div><a href="/help" class="part part_link part_green"><img src="/image/ic_hand.svg" alt="" /><h5 class="color_white">Want to help?</h5>Help us by protecting open source and its users with 5 minutes of your time. </a></div> <div><a href="/donating/" class="part part_link part_blue"><img src="/image/ic_flower.svg" alt="icon of a flower" /><h5 class="color_white">Donate today</h5>Your donation can help grow the future! 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